Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the estimated ten tons of earth brought out from the 130-ft. tunnel (about 2 ft. high by 2 ft. wide) had been shoveled into an intersecting tunnel that was used for a 1931 prison break and never filled in. The guerrillas had even managed to rig a plastic and cardboard bellows to provide air to the diggers...
Country Singer Johnny Cash shucks his guitar for a top gun's rig in A Gun-fight.*Johnny's horse gets bitten by a rattlesnake out on the trail, so he comes into town to find another mount. He also gets himself a shave, grabs himself a meal and a woman, and meets up with Kirk Douglas, once the town's fastest gun but now retired. Kirk and Johnny glower at each other a great deal, then settle down into the kind of edgy friendship that is good for about 15 minutes of running time. Eventually both...
...size of his work. The I-beams of his 1967 construction now on loan to Minneapolis, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore), have a spread of 50 ft. and a rise of 40 - the height of a four-story building. When the Pasadena Museum temporarily allowed Di Suvero to rig a 35-ft. steel sculpture on its grounds, the only site it could spare was a corner of the parking lot; apparently the trustees feared it would chew up their lawns. The installation bills included a whopping $3,500 from the city engineer for checking the structural strength of cables...
...SUMMER is settling in on the North Slope, and the Arctic yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles...
...ready access to U.S. plane and helicopter transport. Another asset is the fact that in South Viet Nam's short experience with elections, voting has come to be viewed as an almost canonical way of registering accommodation with the powers that be. Thus, Thieu has no need to rig the election, though the recent appearance all over the country of Americans taking presidential preference polls has convinced many South Vietnamese that the rigging process is already under...